The Happiest Place on Earth
By Caroline Austin
Digital Media
Dickson College - Year 11
This digital illustration is my creative response to the poem Two Scavengers in a Truck Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes. The poem displays themes of class inequality, poverty and the falsehood of the ���American Dream���. The poem, with its themes of financial struggle and inequality, inspired me to undertake some research about poverty in America. I found a 2017 Report ���Working for the Mouse: A Survey of Disneyland Employees,��� which surveyed 5,000 employees at Southern California Disneyland park. The survey revealed the depressing nature of working at ���the happiest place on earth���. The illustration conveys the false nature of the modern ���American dream���. The illustration was created using Procreate.